
Solica Cassuto is a Greek actress and second wife of actor Andy Griffith. Solica Casuto was an American actor, comedian, television producer, southern gospel singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television.
Before Solica Cassuto, Griffith and Barbara Bray Edwards were married on August 22, 1949, and they adopted two children: a son named Andy Samuel Griffith Jr. (born in 1957 and better known as Sam Griffith) and a daughter named Dixie Nann Griffith. They divorced in 1972.
Sam, a real-estate developer, died in 1996 after years of alcoholism. His second wife was Solica Cassuto, a Greek actress. They were married from 1973 to 1981. Solica and her ex-husband didnt have any known children. Solica Cassuto’s ex-husband Griffith and Cindi Knight married on April 12, 1983, after they met when he was filming Murder in Coweta County.
How did the two former love bords meet and started their relationship? Much information is not available related to the circumstances under which the couples meet. However, a simple backyard wedding at Griffith’s home that he said “I do” to his second wife Solica Cassuto.
“A more unlikely couple you never saw,” Ken Berry said in the book Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show.
Solica Cassuto was a Greek actor unknown to Griffith’s fans. Unlike the conservative country boy Andy who she married, Solica Cassuto was more of a free spirit, Berry said.
At the wedding — which featured a large harp in the middle of the backyard instead of Opie’s bike — Berry said, Solica “looked like a flower child.”
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“I don’t mean that in a bad way,” Berry said. “But the image that Andy has — you would just never pick them as a couple.” You can see the two of them here.
The house where they wed became the couple’s first home together, and it used to belong to Bing Crosby, so Griffith said the couple sometimes liked to play his records.
“We pretend it’s Bing singing in our shower,” Griffith joked to Detroit Free Press in 1975. He also confirmed Solica made a fine wife who “puts up with me and my children, is a fine person, and cares about by kids.”
The couple had a proper honeymoon after their nuptials, but the most important trip they would take happened a few years later.
In 1977, Griffith told The Times that he was bringing his bride to his hometown, Mt. Airy, North Carolina. It was about time she met all his kinfolk and saw the family farm with all the livestock.
Griffith confirmed that he was a “happy man” then. He joked that his wife, Solica Cassuto would be in for a culture shock — but admitted that when it came to meeting his “flower child” bride, “So are the relatives.”
Griffith’s first serious health problem was in April 1983 when he was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome and could not walk for seven months because of paralysis from the knees down.
On May 9, 2000, he underwent quadruple heart-bypass surgery at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia.
After a fall, Solica Cassuto’s ex-husband Griffith underwent hip surgery on September 5, 2007, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Griffith died on July 3, 2012, from a heart attack at the age of 86 at his coastal home in Manteo, Roanoke Island, in Dare County, North Carolina. He was buried in the Griffith family cemetery on the island within five hours of his death.
Much has not been heard from Solica Cassuto after her divorce from the actor and Comedian.
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